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School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Now offering two distinct diplomas: Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering

Project Management

1. COURSE INFORMATION:

School Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Course Level Undergraduate
Direction Environmental Engineering
Course ID ENVE 435 Semester 5th
Course Category Required
Course Modules Instruction Hours per Week ECTS

Lectures and Laboratory assignments

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T=3, E=0, L=1

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Course Type General background
Prerequisites  
Instruction/Exam Language Greek
The course is offered to Erasmus students No
Course URL https//www.eclass.tuc.gr/courses/MHPER268/  (in Greek)

 

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning Outcomes

The course aims at rendering students familiar to the project management and programming by using modern methods and techniques. At the completion of the course we expect that students:

  • will be comfortable with algorithms and mathematical models as well as generic and specialized software so that to make thoughtful and sound decisions
  • recall critical characteristics of projects, their relationship to generic economic and business targets and the principles of project life cycle analysis
  • will have acquired operational knowledge of financial mathematics and investment appraisal basic concepts
  • can support decision making under uncertainty
  • they can efficiently manage methodologies for project management determining critical path, task sequences and realistic timetable  
  • analyse and assess basic cost items and their impact to the project timetable
  • will be capable to manage a large spectrum of project management problems.    
General Competencies/Skills
  • Work autonomously
  • Decision making
  • Design and project management

3. COURSE SYLLABUS

  1. Introduction: project characteristics, responsibilities of project managers, activities and life cycle of projects, conditions of success 
  2. Activity based approach: management, objective, time, cost, quality, human resources, risk, inputs, innovation
  3. Organizational model, work breakdown structure
  4. Project appraisal: financial transactions, investment appraisal, sensitivity analysis, break even, expected value, utility theory
  5. Mathematical programming for project management: network and transport problems.
  6. Project scheduling: GANTT graph, Critical Path Method, Crashing, Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
  7.  Life-cycle costing and budgeting : Costing, management techniques, cash flow
  8. Evaluation and project selection : cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis
  9. Decision making under uncertainty
  10. Decision trees
  11. Software hands-on: examples: new product development
  12. Software hands-on: examples: construction projects
  13. Software hands-on: examples: R&D innovative projects

4. INSTRUCTION and LEARNING METHODS - ASSESSMENT

Lecture Method Direct (face to face)
Use of Information and Communication Technology Power point presentations; E-class support
Instruction Organisation Activity Workload per Semester
(hours)
- Lectures 39
- Lab assignments 11
- Autonomous study 50
Course Total 100

Assessment Method

Ι. Written final examination (70%).
- Questions of theoretical knowledge.
- Theoretical problems to be resolved.
- Comparative assessment of theoretical issues

II. Autonomous assignments (30%).

5. RECOMMENDED READING

  • Shtub, J.F. Bard, S. Globerson, Διαχείριση έργων, Διεργασίες, Μεθοδολογία και Τεχνικο-οικονομική, Επίκεντρο, 2009
  • R. Burke, Διαχείριση έργου - Αρχές και Τεχνικές, ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ, 2014

6. INSTRUCTORS

Course Instructor: Professor S. Rozakis (Faculty- ChEnvEng)
Lectures: Professor S. Rozakis (Faculty- ChEnvEng)
Tutorial exercises:  
Laboratory Exercises: Professor S. Rozakis (Faculty- ChEnvEng)